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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:03:18 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] copy over oom_adj value at fork time
From: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, mel@csn.ul.ie, npiggin@suse.de
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM, David Rientjes<rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Paul Menage wrote:
>
>> Agreed, but the same livelock can be fixed in ways that don't break
>> the API. (E.g. check for the victim being OOM_DISABLED in
>> select_bad_process() when we find a new "worst" candidate).
>>
>
> And allow /proc/pid-of-child/oom_score to represent a possible candidate
> (and, additionally, a hint at the oom killing priority) when it really
> isn't?
>

It's the API that's existed for years with no complaints, AFAICS.

Paul